LEADER 04647nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910782869003321 005 20230207230050.0 010 $a0-292-79420-7 024 7 $a10.7560/717664 035 $a(CKB)1000000000720642 035 $a(OCoLC)471130697 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10273756 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000157796 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11148861 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157796 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10139549 035 $a(PQKB)10330582 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443381 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2028 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443381 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273756 035 $a(OCoLC)932313828 035 $a(DE-B1597)586711 035 $a(OCoLC)1286807811 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292794207 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000720642 100 $a20071026d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFragmented lives, assembled parts$b[electronic resource] $eculture, capitalism, and conquest at the U.S.-Mexico border /$fAlejandro Lugo 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (340 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71766-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-301) and index. 327 $aSixteenth-century conquests (1521-1598) and their postcolonial border legacies -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztla?n and Tenochtitla?n have to do with Ciudad Jua?rez/Paso del Norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial subjectivities -- Culture, class, and gender in late twentieth-century Ciudad Jua?rez -- Maquiladoras, gender, and culture change -- The political economy of tropes, culture, and masculinity inside an electronics factory -- Border inspections : inspecting the working-class life of maquiladora workers on the U.S-Mexico border -- Culture, class, and union politics : the daily struggle for chairs inside a sewing factory in the larger context of the working day -- Women, men, and "gender" in feminist anthropology : lessons from northern Mexico's maquiladoras -- Alternating imaginings -- Reimagining culture and power against late industrial capitalism and other forms of conquest through border theory and analysis. 330 $aEstablished in 1659 as Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juárez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U.S.-Mexico border-and one of the largest industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding, Juárez has been marked by different forms of conquest and the quest for wealth as an elaborate matrix of gender, class, and ethnic hierarchies struggled for dominance. Juxtaposing the early Spanish invasions of the region with the arrival of late-twentieth-century industrial "conquistadors," Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts documents the consequences of imperial history through in-depth ethnographic studies of working-class factory life. By comparing the social and human consequences of recent globalism with the region's pioneer era, Alejandro Lugo demonstrates the ways in which class mobilization is itself constantly being "unmade" at both the international and personal levels for border workers. Both an inside account of maquiladora practices and a rich social history, this is an interdisciplinary survey of the legacies, tropes, economic systems, and gender-based inequalities reflected in a unique cultural landscape. Through a framework of theoretical conceptualizations applied to a range of facets?from multiracial "mestizo" populations to the notions of border "crossings" and "inspections," as well as the recent brutal killings of working-class women in Ciudad Juárez?Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts provides a critical understanding of the effect of transnational corporations on contemporary Mexico, calling for official recognition of the desperate need for improved working and living conditions within this community. 606 $aOffshore assembly industry$xEmployees$zMexico$zCiudad Jua?rez 607 $aCiudad Jua?rez (Mexico)$xSocial conditions 615 0$aOffshore assembly industry$xEmployees 676 $a331.700972/16 700 $aLugo$b Alejandro$f1962-$01539507 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782869003321 996 $aFragmented lives, assembled parts$93790447 997 $aUNINA